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Bippie Mishap posted:Burlnton NJ and yeah totally forgot about Mischief Night. Hey that's where I'm from too  
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Rick_Hunter posted:Central Indiana is host to the General American Accent. We don't have any defining features in our vocabulary either. The quiz has no loving idea where to put us because we're an anomaly. I'm from central Indiana and I got put in a few corn-belt states, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Northern Texas. My boyfriend is from Northern Kentucky and he got put in the southwest, Nevada and Southern California. He answered two questions differently from me. Dude doesn't know what a crawdad is. Has to be all hoity-toity and say crayfish. In any case, Crossroads of America!
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Apparently I'd be right at home if I hopped on a flight to Alaska.. I'd probably love to if it weren't for the high cost of living, too For content, have a refugee from the random imgur thread 
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Rick_Hunter posted:Central Indiana is host to the General American Accent. We don't have any defining features in our vocabulary either. The quiz has no loving idea where to put us because we're an anomaly.  
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Having spent some time there, I've met more than one person who thinks "poo poo" and "Creek" rhyme somehow. theflyingorc posted:what the hell, west coast Thinner slices make it more easily spreadable without tearing up your bread.
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theflyingorc posted:what the hell, west coast Trader Joe's brand butter comes in the west coast shape. Also, the night before Halloween is inexplicably Cabbage Night where I grew up.
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drat Everyone says I have an accent they can't place. Guess no one can
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Met posted:Having spent some time there, I've met more than one person who thinks "poo poo" and "Creek" rhyme somehow. 
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Here is a funny picture. What the gently caress, America? What even are those words? Kitty wampus? I assume someone at the NYT is taking the piss with these.
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Memento posted:Here is a funny picture. Kitty-corner and kitty-wampus and all those are definitely real, but peenie wallie? Really?
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Kitty-corner and kitty-wampus and all those are definitely real, but peenie wallie? Really? I googled it and one of the links was to some results of the same survey done at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Peenie wallie is a) a Jamaican patois term and b) chosen in 0.02% of surveys. So, 1 in 5000 people. Also, I'm going to WTF with the ones about the diagonal corner as well. Diagonal is a word, that is used, and in that context can't mean anything else. I get that you could call a roundabout a traffic circle, or a rotary, but why make poo poo up that means nothing? Anyways, here's a link to the complete survey results which is a ton more questions than the NYT had up: http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/maps.html
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Lotish posted:People say "crayon" as one syllable? I say it "cran". Rhymes with plan or van.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Kitty-corner and kitty-wampus and all those are definitely real, but peenie wallie? Really? Peenie wallie is apparently Jamaican patois. It must be an extremely localized term.
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OMG BYZANTIUM posted:I would like to avoid going where I can get attacked by a "mountain screamer." I dated a mountain screamer when I lived in Colorado.
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Frostwerks posted:I dated a mountain screamer when I lived in Colorado. Stop mountin' screamers.
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Memento posted:I googled it and one of the links was to some results of the same survey done at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Peenie wallie is a) a Jamaican patois term and b) chosen in 0.02% of surveys. So, 1 in 5000 people. It's not that someone just made poo poo up, its that what it meant isn't really used anymore. Words often have origins that get lost or no longer make sense in modern contexts, it's just the nature of language.
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Memento posted:Here is a funny picture. I have heard kitty wampus used by family. No, I don't understand it.
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RandomFerret posted:It doesn't include Canada, but it guessed either Buffalo, NY or Vancouver, OR, which pretty much covers the span. I had a friend whose parents were from India but he was born in the US take the quiz. It had no clue where to put him. It just triangulated the whole drat country. Meanwhile, I'm from SE Michigan, and can confirm Devil's Night. It's funny, the region map for when you answer that question that way shows SE Michigan, and like, some dude in the middle of Pennsylvania. Also finally, we say Kitty-Corner for something diagonal across an intersection around here. It's one of those cutesy words you use when you're a kid and then just stop using because you don't have anything better and people know what you mean when you say it.
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Memento posted:I googled it and one of the links was to some results of the same survey done at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Peenie wallie is a) a Jamaican patois term and b) chosen in 0.02% of surveys. So, 1 in 5000 people. I live in a place where "kitty-corner" means diagonal.
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My dad said catty(not kitty)-wampus all the time and so do I. I've never been asked what it means.
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I've heard catty-wampus before, but used to mean "disorganized" as in "the room was all catty-wampus." I've never heard of it meaning diagonal, but I do say kitty-corner sometimes.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Trader Joe's brand butter comes in the west coast shape. Burlington?
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Frostwerks posted:Burlington? Vermont? No, Newport, RI. Is it all over New England?
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Vermont? No, Newport, RI. Is it all over New England? I've always heard it being Vermont almost exclusively and I was just betting Burlington since it's the biggest city in the state.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Vermont? No, Newport, RI. Is it all over New England? I grew up in North Kingstown RI and it didnt even have a name.
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Sex Hobbit posted:I've heard catty-wampus before, but used to mean "disorganized" as in "the room was all catty-wampus." I've never heard of it meaning diagonal, but I do say kitty-corner sometimes. Same here w/ catty-wampus. It's catty-corner though. e: Catty-wampus is as Sex Hobbit says above. Diagonally across a street corner is catty-corner. Everything else is just...weird.
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Am I the only one mocking the other choices as if they're wrong?  My results are good: CONFIRMED WHITE GUY
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Those tests are never correct for Oregon. Science apparently has no clue how we talk here.
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Who gives a fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck?
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How come youse drug my trolley to the popshop catwise from the carryout?
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What happened to the funny pictures??
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Does anyone have that pic of the Japanese americaphile? I think the name was Tex Kobiyashi.
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:Those tests are never correct for Oregon. Science apparently has no clue how we talk here. Call-flower. Colorin' kran. Caddy-wampus. Crawdude.
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ncumbered_by_idgits posted:My dad said catty(not kitty)-wampus all the time and so do I. I've never been asked what it means. I've always heard it a katty-wampus too. Kitty-corner is also familiar. As I've now officially lived more than half of my life in Wisconsin, it was neat to see it place me as being from there.  I was expecting it to have trouble since I spent my first thirteen years in four different US states and a stint in Germany.
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 More funny pictures
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JPrime posted:Same here w/ catty-wampus. It's catty-corner though. Same. Memento posted:I get that you could call a roundabout a traffic circle, or a rotary, but why make poo poo up that means nothing? Those are all different things: a roundabout features horizontal deflection and some outer curb work, a traffic circle is a circle plopped in the middle of an intersection, and a rotary intersection is a very large circular intersection. 
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RFC2324 posted:Does anyone have that pic of the Japanese americaphile? I think the name was Tex Kobiyashi. Rawhide, not Tex  
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Tora! Tora! Tora! posted:Same. That sure is a hilarious picture of an intersection, but I've got a few that I'd say have it beat.   
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